I gave CentOS 7 a spin last night (been waiting for the release!).
I installed it on VirtualBox (using a Windows host pc). I must say, my first impressions are that this is a very nice release.
They implemented the same new installer from Fedora, which I really like. It makes for 2 clicks (Language and Keyboard) and then it's installing in the background while you can setup your passwords and accounts. This makes for a very fast install.
The system just seems to feel "faster". I know that is completely objective, but mind you, I did not have the VirtualBox Guest Tools installed on the VM, and it still felt "native". I'm not sure what about it specifically feels faster, just everything I guess... especially booting.
eth0 was set to "ONBOOT=no" by default, which tripped me up for a half second (since all previous releases came with all adapters up). A quick config change and restart the network service, and up and running. I was surprised there was already update packages available, including a kernel update.
VirtualBox did not want to install it's Guest Additions/Tools on the VM, due to some change with "numa", from my understanding it's memory allocation related (could be wrong). In any event, I got the "struct mm_struct has no member named numa_next_reset" error.
I installed it on VirtualBox (using a Windows host pc). I must say, my first impressions are that this is a very nice release.
They implemented the same new installer from Fedora, which I really like. It makes for 2 clicks (Language and Keyboard) and then it's installing in the background while you can setup your passwords and accounts. This makes for a very fast install.
The system just seems to feel "faster". I know that is completely objective, but mind you, I did not have the VirtualBox Guest Tools installed on the VM, and it still felt "native". I'm not sure what about it specifically feels faster, just everything I guess... especially booting.
eth0 was set to "ONBOOT=no" by default, which tripped me up for a half second (since all previous releases came with all adapters up). A quick config change and restart the network service, and up and running. I was surprised there was already update packages available, including a kernel update.
VirtualBox did not want to install it's Guest Additions/Tools on the VM, due to some change with "numa", from my understanding it's memory allocation related (could be wrong). In any event, I got the "struct mm_struct has no member named numa_next_reset" error.
Some digging around and I located this patch: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12638
Applied it to the VirtualBox src once it unpacked itself to the /opt directory. After the patch, the Virtualbox Tools compile ok and installed.
I have a lot more playing around to do this evening... but so far, happy to say, this is shaping up to be a great release.